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landing the floor area at the top of a flight of stairs or between two flights of stairs landing [′land·iŋ] (civil engineering) A place where boats receive or discharge passengers, freight, and so on. (mining engineering) Level stage in a shaft at which cages are loaded and discharged. The top or bottom of a slope, shaft, or inclined plane. (navigation) The termination of an aircraft's flight or of a ship's voyage. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Dawson's Landing was a slaveholding town, with a rich, slave-worked grain and pork country back of it. At the end of a long twelve or fifteen minutes the wheels stopped, and Tom slipped overboard and swam ashore in the dusk, landing fifty yards down- stream, out of danger of possible stragglers. There were four Musketeers on the bottom steps, amusing themselves with the following exercise, while ten or twelve of their comrades waited upon the landing place to take their turn in the sport. |
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